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We transmit OccupancyGrid messages using the topic_proxy which behind the scenes uses blob_tools. During "blobification", data can optionally be compressed using BZ2 (see the text in second link). The compression ratio on real-life grid maps is very high there, reaching from 50:1 up to 100:1.

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